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I expected Windows to panic as well but Win 10 handles it relatively gracefully. It says Windows detected a change to your hardware and does a relatively decent
by therein 3y ago
I expected Windows to panic as well but Win 10 handles it relatively gracefully. It says Windows detected a change to your hardware and does a relatively decent job.
- netsharc 3y agoYeah, I've done several such transplants of disks onto different hardware.. maybe even from an AMD to an Intel system once (different mainboard chipsets), and of Windows 7. As you say, it will say new hardware detected and a lot of the times will get the drivers for them from Windows Update. There are also 3rd party tools to remove no-longer existing devices from the registry, to clean the system up a bit.
- matrss 3y agoWindows will, however, no longer acknowledge your license key. At least that is what happened when I swapped a Windows installation from an Intel system into an AMD system.
- toast0 3y agoIf you switch to a Microsoft account instead of a local account before you move your install, you can often recover your license once Windows processes the hardware change (sometimes it takes several attempts over a few reboots, their license server is special), and once that happens, you can go back to a local account, if Microsoft didn't remove that flow.
- raudette 3y agoWith Windows 10, I have unplugged the primary storage from an old laptop, and plugged it into a new one, without issue. The system booted, no license issues.
- wtallis 3y agoLikely because on a laptop there's usually a Windows license embedded in an ACPI table. As long as you weren't moving a Pro edition installation to a machine that only had a key for Home edition, it would silently handle any re-activation necessary.